The Cuban Missile Crisis: tensions mount
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John Kennedy's Foreign Policy
In the 1950s, Kennedy viewed liberals as being kind of sanctimonious and impractical. He does shift to a more progressive politics in his final year but that only comes later. In terms of foreign policy, he's pretty hard line. A key moment here is his time at Harvard when he wrote Why England Slept about appeasement with Nazi Germany.
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